McK8s: Container Orchestration in Kubernetes Multi-Clusters - Mulugeta Ayalew Tamiru

McK8s: Container Orchestration in Kubernetes Multi-Clusters - Mulugeta Ayalew Tamiru, University of Rennes 1 / Elastisys AB

Today many companies deploy their workloads across multiple Kubernetes clusters in private and public cloud data centers or in emerging computing paradigms such as Fog Computing. Recent efforts in the community such as KubeFed address some of the multi-cluster deployment challenges. However, KubeFed currently offers only manual or fully load-balanced placement. Other challenges such as autoscaling and inter-cluster network routing are solved by other projects separately. In this context, we believe there is a need for a more integrated and autonomous approach for managing geo-distributed Kubernetes clusters at scale. In this talk, we will present mck8s -- an extension and partial replacement of KubeFed for geo-distributed computing environments which aims to bring placement, autoscaling, bursting, inter-cluster routing, and cluster provisioning into one package. We will also emphasize its usability and easy adoption by using manifest files very much similar to vanilla Kubernetes.